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by nobody9999 1854 days ago
>Excellent. Either you got this training at some point or you figured it out yourself. The point of such training is to make sure that all of us white men understand that benefits we've gotten from systemic racism.

No. No training about this except more than fifty years of living in this world.

I'll summarize in a negative way as that's generally better understood:

  There are assholes *everywhere*.
  They are men and women.
  They are of all ethnicities, creeds and levels of 
  melanin content.
  They are also a pretty small group compared to the 
  larger population.
  But they are well mixed within the population and 
  appear with some regularity.
Pretty much everybody else are decent, kind people. As such, I give folks the benefit of the doubt unless and until they show me they don't deserve it.